Affirm your right to vote
In the Brave New World that this country models, take nothing for granted. Especially, not your democratic right to vote. This morning, in my effort to head off an administrative error, the family climbed in the car and drove for an hour, each way. The simplest option, if we wanted to maintain our right to vote. Someone, in an effort to avoid the near occasion of sin known as voter fraud raised the bar for identification. We wanted to be identified.
I had checked. The whole family was on the voters’ list at the federal level. When I used the online tool to signal a change of address, we disappeared. That’s not how the system is supposed to work. Now, the returning officer explained that the software should have requested identification before effecting changes. It didn’t and it did… erase our listing. I spent twenty minutes on the phone, last week. Today, we went the distance.
The five employees were ready to hear our case, and it didn’t take long to update things. After all, we were the only clients…
After my turn, I took the dog for a ramble near an apple tree, and collected some fresh fruit (as yet, untasted). Haven’t picked an apple in years. Given the ripened state, I didn’t have to shake things, or throw things; just reach out and collect what I could see close at hand.
The new, used lawn tractor still hasn’t arrived, so I called. Slight oversight. The truck should bring our Deere east, this week. And then I have to figure out what to do with the new toy.
